Trump Threatens to Strike Iran Energy Sites Unless Strait of Hormuz Reopens (truthout.org)
from floofloof@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 03:01
https://lemmy.ca/post/62213233

cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/36986

Democrats in Congress sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian government, with the Republican declaring Saturday that he would take out the country’s power plants unless it reopened the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic. Just a day after Trump claimed that “we are getting very…

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CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca on 23 Mar 07:41 collapse

Is that a war crime?

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Mar 08:04 next collapse

It very much is, yes.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 09:21 next collapse

If trump wants to do it, it’s likely to be one by that alone

frongt@lemmy.zip on 23 Mar 12:43 collapse

Debatable. Infrastructure can be a target if it supports the war. A power plant for a military base? Valid target. For a hospital? War crime.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Mar 13:45 collapse

Debatable

No. It DEFINITELY is. As per the Geneva convention, “destroying property not required by military necessity" is the criteria.

While sometimes advantageous for a scorched earth approach such as the customary (and inherently criminal) “Shock and Awe” tactics of the US, destroying civilian or mixed infrastructure is NOT militarily necessary.

A power plant for a military base? Valid target. For a hospital? War crime.

We’re talking power plants here, not backyard wind turbines or roof top photovoltaic cells.

The kinds of power plants the Mango Mussolini is threatening supply a major metropolitan area or large region each, not a single base or hospital.